Zero hours contracts for non-permanent staff: FOI release

FOI reference: FOI/17/02499
Date received: 18 October 2017
Date responded: 16 November 2017

Information requested

How many of the 284 non-permanent staff (including agency, temporary, contract staff and inward secondments) mentioned in the consolidated budget have contracts with their minimum hours per week listed as zero, and which department do they work in?

Response

The Scottish Government and its main agencies have no employees, workers assigned through contracted frameworks or inward secondees who have contracts with their minimum hours per week listed as zero. Such information regarding organisations outwith the Scottish Government and its main agencies would be held separately by those organisations and is not retained centrally.

The business areas and organisations that form SG Main are as follows:

Scottish Government Core Directorates	Agencies	Non-ministerial Departments (NMDs)
Economy	Accountancy in Bankruptcy	National Records of Scotland
Constitution and External Affairs	Disclosure Scotland	Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
Scottish Exchequer	Education Scotland	Scottish Housing Regulator
Health and Social Care	Scottish Public Pensions Agency	Revenue Scotland
Education, Communities and Justice	Student Awards Agency for Scotland	Food Standards Scotland
Organisational Development and Operations	Transport Scotland	Scottish Fiscal Commission
Permanent Secretary	-	-

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